Our car dashboard lights are a testament to how automated our lives have become. With a dash of self-awareness, they’re a reminder of how little we actually have control over our lives.
The first rule of robot driving is “don’t look at the robot.” The second rule is “don’t look at the car.
The first rule is obvious, but the second rule is a little more difficult to follow. Its not just that our lives are so mechanized that we’ve become a slave to a car. Rather, we’ve become robotic slaves. We don’t even have the power to change our driving habits. Our cars drive in a robotic fashion, but our lives are controlled by a robot.
Of course, that only applies to us in the moment. Its our robot that is controlling our lives, not the robot. In the long term it’s possible that the robot could become our friend, but for the few short hours we get, we are in control. In the short term, we are in control because we are still autonomous humans. In the long term, however, our robots will be our servants, and the only ones that we have control over is our mood and our desires.
Okay, so if robots are the new people, then they will be the only ones that we can control. This isn’t going to work, though. Just because the robot can control a robot doesn’t mean that it can control us. In fact, robots could just as easily become our friends, our spouses, our children. However, for the most part we will still be controlled by a robot. Because of this, the concept of artificial intelligence is a bit of a misnomer.
Robots are not just machines. Robots are also people. And to think that we can build robot-like machines that can make our decisions for us is a bit of a stretch, but what if they were to be made of people that werent made entirely out of robots? That way we could just choose who we wanted to be when we died.
Robots are the best kind of artificial intelligence because they arent completely artificial. Although, if you want to give it a fair whirl, you can always give the robots names like “Robot” or “Marathon Man” or “Titanium.” Even if you dont think you will ever need them, you might just need to call up the robot department at your local mall and ask for a “Robot.
I am a person, not an idea that will never die.
We’re not sure if Robot is just a name or just a brand name, but if it isn’t, I certainly like the idea of robots just being robots. Of course, I am personally not a fan of robots, because I prefer to see the world through the eyes of my own.
Actually, we did put some robots in the game, but that was to help with the story… The robots are actually pretty useless (besides being awesome looking, of course). In fact, in the game it’s implied that they actually try to turn you into a zombie (with the “zombie” being the phrase that everyone seems to use) if you ask them too many questions.